On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> This is interesting. I'm going to look more into what you've been doing >> over the weekend. But in the meantime I have a related question. >> >> I've been working (quietly) on Multimedia Usability, and one major issue >> with the whole design of multimedia on mediawiki, IMO, is the unity of >> storage filename, URL, and title. >> >> Since you've gone halfway there, how hard would it be to break these >> dependencies entirely? >> > > This work is definitely a step in that direction, and probably not too much > more dev work to go all of the way. The test/bugfix cycle is what worries > me the most, for reasons that probably are the same for any feature in this > area. >
Luckily the FileRepo code isn't nearly as scary as the Parser, and I have a pretty good grasp of it. I haven't reviewed the patches in question, but I can do so. I really don't want us to jump into this too quickly and find out we've made a bad decision...so let's slow it down a few notches :p I know the patch/review process can be a bit trying at times, especially when you hear no feedback. I've been asked before what it takes to get a bug/patch/branch reviewed and if I've learned nothing in the past few years it's this: persistence. You have to drive your change and see it through. Posting a bug (sadly) isn't usually enough to get the right people's attention. Maybe it's a lack of resources, Bugzilla sucking, who knows. Anyway... > Decoupling the filename from the URL/Title would involve not only storing > file extensions in the database, but full filenames, which would result in a > few more megabytes of database space on commons. There's been quite a bit > of debate in Bugzilla since yesterday about the database modifications and > the merits of the feature generally: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421#c51 > > It would also open up the possibility of storing uploads in the database, also a long-standing feature request for third parties[0]. I don't really agree with stripping the file extensions necessarily (I've said my share on the bug), but I do agree that decoupling URL/Title/Filename (at least separate the filename/path) would be a good direction to go in the long term. > >> Also, I want a pony. > > > Not before I get my unicorn. I took the liberty of opening an enhancement request for Neal's pony (which I would also like), but Aryeh pointed out that we might be facing some legal and logistical issues in doing so. -Chad [0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/363 [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/23029 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
